Re: "hot swap" storage devices

2011-09-19 Thread Matthew Mondor
Sorry to reply to such an old thread (I'm catching up with ml mail). On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:35:48 -0700 Erik Fair wrote: > With regard to "hot swap" storage devices, we really have two choices which > are not mutually exclusive: > > 1. Treat as now, but with some ad

Re: "hot swap" storage devices

2011-06-27 Thread Masao Uebayashi
NIX has always handled removable > devices - you just have to tell UNIX that you're going to remove it *before* > you do (e.g. umount(8)). There is a reason why someone wrote fuser(8), long > ago: > > http://miroirs.cesars.org/man/pages/SunOS-4.1.3/man8/fuser.8.txt > > &

"hot swap" storage devices

2011-06-27 Thread Erik Fair
#x27;re going to remove it *before* you do (e.g. umount(8)). There is a reason why someone wrote fuser(8), long ago: http://miroirs.cesars.org/man/pages/SunOS-4.1.3/man8/fuser.8.txt With regard to "hot swap" storage devices, we really have two choices which are not mutually exclusive: